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THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL

Sandra L. Hofferth

Johanne Boisjoly

Greg J. Duncan

This paper investigates whether a family's access to social capital— defined here as perceived access to time and money help in an emergency from kin and friends—depends upon the family's past time and money investments in those kin and friends. It also examines the potential tradeoffs between money and time help from friends and relatives. Data come from parents of children under age 18 who responded to a supplement on time and money assistance included in the 1980 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results suggest that while parents who invest primarily in friend-based help networks have greater potential access to assistance from friends, there is no significant link between investment in family and access to family-based assistance. Thus, while exchange describes social-capital linkages to friends, it does not describe family-based behaviors. Other findings are that time and money appear to be complements while investments in friends or family are substitutes.

Key Words: social capital • kin networks • time assistance • money assistance • social exchange

Rationality and Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, 79-110 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/104346399011001004
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